Prayer for Christ's second coming -- Sins confessed -- Prayer for Zion and Jerusalem.

¹⁾Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

²⁾As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

³⁾When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

⁴⁾For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besidebesides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

⁵⁾Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, thoseand rejoiceth him that rememberremembereth thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in thoserighteousness there is continuance, and wesuch shall be saved.

⁶⁾But we have sinned; we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷⁾And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

⁸⁾But now, O LORDLord, thou art our fatherFather; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

⁹⁾Be not wroth very sore, O LORDLord, neither remember iniquity for ever:forever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

¹⁰⁾Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹⁾Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire:; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

¹²⁾Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORDLord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?